elder abuse

[Guest guest]

I had something happen at work today that really upset me. We have this one

particular Sgt that likes to nitpick all of our calls from the field and will

even tell us to cancel them. This morning I had a call holding for a 93 year

old elderly woman who called in to say that the staff at the nursing home was

abusing her and that she had bruises on her body to prove it. I was told by

this sgt to lower the priority AND to call back the establishment and speak

with the nurses and ascertain the validity of this accusation. HELLO, these

are the people she is accusing of abusing her. Needless to say, I informed my

supervisor and she had him call her and she I guess informed him we woul dnot

do that. So he had a duty officer do it. The end result? they spoke the the

desk nurse who said she was a difficult patient and yes there had been an

altercation the previous nite w/2 of the Nurse assistants..but it was

entirely because she was trying to fight with them.....a 93 year old woman.

So..nothing was done because this sgt decided he was god and took it upon

himself to discount this elderly lady as nuts. Sorry this is so long...but i

had to get it off my chest.

My opinions only..and definitly not those of my employer

Eva

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

Thanks for the support. What I ended up doing was calling our detective

who works in elder abuse (we have a fairly new division doing this), he was

as outraged and me and assured me he would be investigating it..as well as

notifying the state agency that oversees these complaints. I just wonder how

many of these little old people fall through the cracks because people write

them off as crazy simply because they are fortunate (or maybe unfortunate)

enough to have lived such a long life .

Only my opinions..not those of my agency..which at this point I prefer not to

state..umm for obvious reasons

Eva